SEPTEMBER 21 SAN MATTEO APOSTOLO. Prayer to ask for a grace

PRAYER TO SAINT MATTEO APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST

For that admirable readiness, with which you, o glorious Saint Matthew, abandoned the employment, the home and the family, to conform to the invitations of Jesus Christ, obtain for us all the grace to always enjoy with jubilation all the divine inspirations .

For that admirable humility, with which you, o glorious Saint Matthew, writing before any other the Gospel of Jesus Christ, you did not qualify otherwise than with the name of tax collector, impetrate to us all divine grace and all that is needed to keep it.

O St. Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist,

that you are so powerful with God in favor of his

pilgrim people on earth, help us in ours

spiritual and temporal needs.

The many graces that your devotees,

at all times and in all places, they got

and piously depicted in your sanctuary make us hope

that you too will grant your protection.

Ask us for the grace to listen to the Word of Jesus

that you boldly announced,

faithfully transcribed in your Gospel

and generously testified with blood.

Get divine assistance from danger

which threaten the health of the soul and the integrity of the body.

Intercede a peaceful and beneficial life in this world

and the salvation of the soul in eternity.

Amen.